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ChatGPT for YouTube
✓ verifiedFreemium
Free Chrome extension that generates AI text summaries of YouTube videos, no AI account needed.
11K saves
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Sumly AI
✓ verifiedFree trial
AI podcast-summary service that emails personalized, goal-tailored takeaways from followed shows within about 12 hours of release.
5.9K saves
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AI Video Summarizer
✓ verifiedFree
Free, no-signup tool that turns videos into summaries, transcripts, subtitles, chapters and mind maps in seconds.
733 saves
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Aqua Voice
✓ verifiedFreemium
Voice dictation and editing tool that lets users draft, revise, and restructure text hands-free using natural spoken commands.
2.2K saves
Pricing
Free: $0 (7 summaries/week)
Pro: $9.90 (300 quotas)
Subscription: $14.90/mo (unlimited)
No public pricing
No public pricing
Free trial available
No public pricing
Starter: Free (1,000 words)
Pro: $8/mo billed annually
Team: $12/mo billed annually
Core features
- ✦AI text summaries of YouTube videos
- ✦No AI account or API key required
- ✦Free weekly summary quota
- ✦Paid quotas and unlimited subscription
- ✦Transcription support
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- ✦Personalized, goal-based podcast summaries
- ✦Automatic delivery within ~12 hours of new episodes
- ✦Profile that improves recommendations over time
- ✦Contextual filtering of key insights vs. filler
- ✦Email digest delivery
- ✦Tracking of time saved versus listening in full
- ✦Video-to-text with structured summaries
- ✦9 summary templates for different content types
- ✦Full transcripts, subtitles and clickable chapters
- ✦Mind-map generation from summaries
- ✦100+ languages, no signup, unlimited use
- ✦Real-time voice-to-text transcription with an 'Avalon' language model
- ✦Voice-driven text editing and rewriting, not just dictation
- ✦Custom dictionary for domain-specific terms
- ✦Syntax-aware recognition for coding and technical vocabulary
- ✦Team plans with centralized billing and org-wide privacy mode
- ✦Enterprise SSO/SAML, SCIM, and zero data retention options
Use cases
- →Summarizing long YouTube videos
- →Saving time on video research
- →Learning key points quickly
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- →Busy professionals wanting key takeaways without listening to full episodes
- →Founders/operators tracking insights from business podcasts
- →Lifelong learners wanting personalized, retained knowledge from audio content
- →Summarize lectures, meetings and podcasts
- →Generate transcripts and subtitles for creators
- →Turn long videos into study notes and mind maps
- →Developers dictating prompts or code comments accurately
- →Writers drafting essays or emails by speaking
- →Teams standardizing dictation settings and billing
- →Professionals wanting voice-based text editing instead of typing
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